WELLS, Owen Augustine, a Representative from Wisconsin;
born in Catskill, Greene County, N.Y., February 4, 1844;
moved with his parents to a farm near Empire, Fond du Lac County, Wis., in 1850;
attended public and private schools;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Fond du Lac;
also engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising;
appointed by President Cleveland as collector of internal revenue for the third Wisconsin district in 1885, serving until 1887, when that district was consolidated with the Milwaukee district;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888 and to the Gold Democratic National Convention in 1896, also to numerous State conventions of his party;
elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third Congress (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1895);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1894 to the Fifty-fourth Congress;
declined to accept any public office and resumed the practice of law in Fond du Lac;
retired in 1901 and resided in Fond du Lac, Wis., until his death there on January 29, 1935;
interment in Rienzi Cemetery.